Some world games have spelled out success for a pair of brothers, to the tune of cash prizes and even a trip to the Galapagos Islands, as the Karnik brothers are geography wizards. Years of studying, hide-and-seek using an atlas, and other worldly games paid off when 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik won the National Geographic Bee [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what the tens of thousands of planes traveling all over the world look like from space, you’re in luck! Michael Markieta, who works for engineering and design firm Arup, utilized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to collect data and visually depict the 58,000 some odd planes traveling everyday, represented with [...]

A warehouse worker in Jersey City, New Jersey, was hospitalized after he was almost crushed to death by nearly a ton of — get this — pineapples. Don’t cue the Kevin Hart sound byte just yet, the 39-year-old warehouse worker at 107 West Side Ave. in Jersey City had 1,500 pounds of pineapples fall on him. [...]

Last month, an Ecuadorian resident of Queens was grabbed off the street, thrown into an SUV and taken to a warehouse where he was burned with acid and beaten to a bloody pulp. His kidnappers held the man for several weeks while trying to get $3 million from his relatives in Ecuador in exchange for [...]

One of the two men who murdered a soldier in broad daylight in Woolwich, England, yesterday has been identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Christian who became an Islamic extremist when he was a young boy. Michael and an unnamed accomplice drove a car into an off-duty British soldier and then hacked him to death [...]